Actor of The Week: Jamie Foxx

Eric Marlon Bishop (lahir 13 Desember 1967), dikenal secara profesional sebagai Jamie Foxx, adalah aktor, penyanyi, penulis lagu, produser rekaman dan komedian Amerika. Untuk perannya sebagai Ray Charles dalam film biografi Ray 2004, ia memenangkan Academy Award untuk Aktor Terbaik, BAFTA Award untuk Aktor Terbaik dalam Peran Utama, dan Golden Globe Award untuk Aktor Terbaik - Film atau Musikal Komedi. Pada tahun yang sama, ia dinominasikan untuk Academy Award untuk Aktor Pendukung Terbaik untuk peran Jaminannya dalam film kejahatan. Sejak musim semi 2017, Foxx telah bertindak sebagai pembawa acara dan produser eksekutif acara permainan Fox, Beat Shazam.

Peran akting lainnya termasuk Sersan Staf Sykes di Jarhead (2005), eksekutif rekaman Curtis Taylor, Jr dalam Dreamgirls (2006), Detektif Ricardo Tubbs dalam film adaptasi 2006 dari serial TV Miami Vice, peran utama dalam film Django Unchained ( 2012), Electro supervillain di The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), Will Stacks in Annie (2014), dan gangster Bats / Leon Jefferson III di Baby Driver (2017). Foxx juga membintangi acara komedi sketsa In Living Color dan The Jamie Foxx Show (1996–2001) memiliki sitkom televisi, di mana ia memerankan Jamie King, Jr.

Foxx juga seorang musisi pemenang Grammy Award, memproduksi empat album, yang telah masuk sepuluh besar Billboard 200 AS: Unpredictable (2005), yang menduduki puncak tangga lagu, Intuition (2008), Best Night of My Life (2010) , dan Hollywood: A Story of a Dozen Roses (2015).

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	Toys	Baker
1996	The Truth About Cats & Dogs	Ed
	The Great White Hype	Hassan El Ruk'n
1997	Booty Call	Bunz
1998	The Players Club	Blue
1999	Held Up	Michael
	Any Given Sunday	Willie Beamen
2000	Bait	Alvin Sanders
2001	Ali	Drew Bundini Brown
2003	Shade	Larry Jennings
2004	Breakin' All the Rules	Quincy Watson
	Collateral	Max
	Ray	Ray Charles
2005	Stealth	Lt. Henry Purcell
	Jarhead	Staff Sgt. Sykes
2006	Miami Vice	Ricardo Tubbs
	Dreamgirls	Curtis Taylor, Jr.
2007	The Kingdom	Ronald Fleury
	Elmo's Christmas Countdown	Himself
2009	The Soloist	Nathaniel Ayers
	Law Abiding Citizen	Nick Rice
2010	Valentine's Day	Kelvin Moore
	Due Date	Darryl
	I'm Still Here	Himself
2011	Rio	Nico	Voice role
	Horrible Bosses	Dean Jones
2012	Django Unchained	Django Freeman
2013	White House Down	President James Sawyer
2014	Rio 2	Nico	Voice role
	The Amazing Spider-Man 2	Max Dillon / Electro
	A Million Ways to Die in the West	Django Freeman	Cameo appearance
	Horrible Bosses 2	Dean Jones
	Annie	William Stacks
2017	Sleepless	Vincent Downs
	Baby Driver	Leon "Bats" Jefferson III
2018	Robin Hood	Little John
2019	All-Star Weekend	Malik	Also director and writer Post-production
2019	Just Mercy	Walter McMillian	Post-production
TBA	Untitled Schulman/Joost project		Post-production
TBA	Spawn	Al Simmons / Spawn	Pre-production

Television[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991–94	In Living Color	Various	Main cast; Seasons 3–5; 95 episodes
1992–93	Roc	Crazy George	Seasons 2–3; 7 episodes
1996	Hangin' with Mr. Cooper	Coach Armstrong	Episode: "Rivals"
	Moesha	Car Salesman	Episode: "Driving Miss Moesha"
1996–97	3rd Rock from the Sun	Damon	2 episodes
1996–2001	The Jamie Foxx Show	Jamie King	Main role; 100 episodes; also creator, director and executive producer
2000, 2012	Saturday Night Live	Himself/Host	Episodes: "Jamie Foxx/Blink-182" and "Jamie Foxx/Ne-Yo"
2001	2001 MTV Video Music Awards	Himself/Host	Television special
2004	Chappelle's Show	Black Tony Blair	Season 2, Episode 13
	Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story	Tookie	Television film
2011	When I Was 17	Himself	Season 3, Episode 50
2013	David Blaine: Real or Magic	Himself	Television special
2016	Jackie Robinson	Jackie Robinson(voice)	Ken Burns documentary for PBS
2017–present	Beat Shazam	Host	Also executive producer
2017	White Famous	Himself	Also executive producer
2019	Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's All in the Family and The Jeffersons	George Jefferson	ABC television special